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Originally Posted by twetherbee
... I was not a fan of the level to which "cheesecaking" was done this year, either. But it had to be done to stay competitive in this year's game. One more reason to dislike Recycle Rush.
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This. ^
The issue is choke holds in the game, not whether teams should help each other.
987 and several other top-caliber teams got it right, played by the rules, and made this game look as good as it could. RR has many aspects I really like, including the emphasis on consistency and scoring capability.* But the choke hold opportunity created by step cans should have been foreseen and corrected. I think the IRI committee will find a way to do that.
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*That said, I am not a fan of the "one bad match kills your seed" impact of straight average ranking, nor of the ranking bias due to relative strength of qualification alliance partners. Not sure if W-L-T (with tiebreakers) would have fixed these or not -- maybe someone will analyze and make constructive recommendations to the GDC.
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